HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!!

BLURBAGE

From a few of our newest titles:

Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It, Dan Hurley. Kaplan Publishing, 2010.

"Diabetes Rising takes on the fastest-growing disease in history with a take-no-prisoners attitude. You've got to love the author's pugnacity...Not willing to live with the enemy, he wants to kill it in its crib."
                  -- Chris Matthews, Host of Hardball with Chris Matthews

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein. Harper Collins, 2011.

"...And how dangerous is pink and pretty anyway...? Being a princess is just make-believe, after all; eventually they grow out of it. Or do they?"
                  -- from the dust-jacket


Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy, Martin Lindstrom. Crown Business, 2011.

"If you want to learn to cut through marketers' phony health and wellness claims and make smarter desicions about both your body and your money, you need to read this eye-opening book."

                  -- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Coauthor of
                     You: The Owner's Manual

Get to Know This Amazing Citation Tool!

I'm guessing that by now your instructors are challenging you to cite(identify in print) the various sources of information you use for assignments. These sources include books, journal articles, websites, government documents, electronic books, DVD's, and more. Well, please know that the Library has on its own website a link to EasyBib Premium, a citation machine that will help you cite your sources in MLA or APA format. Plus you can use EasyBib Premium to store your sources and keep track of your research notes.  Click here or visit our Research Help page, where the link is found.
And, as always, please never hesitate to ask a Librarian for help using EasyBib, or with any other library-related matter. We're here for you.

HAPPY 200th BIRTHDAY, CHARLES DICKENS!

Research Databases

Waist-deep in homework already? We can help!
We have vast riches of information that you can easily mine -- just go to our website: http://www.palomar.edu/library/ and click on Databases/ Articles.
From there, check out the extensive research links. Our multitude of hugely helpful databases include(and these are just a very small sampling of what we offer):
Opposing Viewpoints: http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/?userGroupName=cclc_palomar
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Newspaper Source Plus: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?sid=b6d478d5-a198-44e1-999f-e0cde6600530%40sessionmgr110&vid=1&hid=112
Gale Virtual Reference Library: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cclc_palomar?db=GVRL
Oxford English Dictionary: THE definitive record of the English language: http://www.oed.com/

Plus many, many more.
Good luck!

Course Materials, Spring 2012

Welcome Back All!

I hope that over break you've taken more naps, seen more films and listened to more music than I did. Many of you know the drill by now, but, so as to introduce library procedures to new students and revisit them for old, know that many of your instructors have asked us to make available copies of the textbooks and other materials you'll need to absorb for your classes. These copies are kept behind the Circulation Desk, which is on your right as you enter the library. To find out if we have course materials you need, ask at the Circulation Desk or go to our online Library Catalog at

http://sirsi.palomar.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/?ps=BD0vHljKtp/0/3440030/60/502/X 

and click on Reserves (on gray horizontal bar at the top.) You can search by instructor's name, course number, or course title.

Food for Thought, Winter Break, 2011-12

Read in order to live.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Letter to Mlle de Chantepie, June 1857